Power Mac G5 :: Backing Up ITunes DVD
Nov 18, 2007
I have an iMac G4 (see specs below) and have recently been ripping tons of CD's into iTunes in preparation for a major home audio upgrade. I am now trying to back-up my iTunes library. However, when I try to use a blank CD-R, as expected, I get a message stating that there is not enough room, and that I must insert a blank DVD. The problem is, when I insert the blank DVD, it gets spit right back out. My computer has a HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4480B. I tried to insert a Philips DVD+R 4.7 GB, 1-16x speed, 120 minute blank DVD. Anyone know why my computer won't read this DVD? Is there another DVD I should be using or will my computer simply not burn DVD's?
Information:
iMac Power PC G4 (3.3)
Mac OS X (10.4.10)
1 GHz; 768 MB RAM; iTunes 7.5
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Jan 3, 2011
Is there a way to backup all of my iTunes content like shown here...
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using an external HDD instead of using CDs or DVDs?
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May 19, 2009
I have been having trouble backing up to a DL DVD. When I input the disc, it says "this is not a blank disc" and spits it out. I got around it once by letting the dialogue in the finder pop up and selected "open in itunes" and then clicked backed up from there. I have tried this twice and both discs started burning, but ended in an error roughly 10 minutes later stating "The attempt to burn a disc failed. The device failed to respond properly, unable to recover or retry." I have tried two separate brands of discs, one being a brand new spool. I had some trouble with my MacBook Pro not burning DL DVD's last month and I took it to see a genius, and of course it worked in the store.
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May 7, 2012
I have a new iPhone 4S and tried to back up its contents with iTunes on my Mac. ... I used the USB connector to physically link the iPhone 4S to my Mac -- which is running OS 10.4.11 and iTunes 9, if I remember correclty -- but the iPhone did not appear in the iTunes pane ... can anyone tell me why and how to back up my iPhone 4S using iTunes?
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iPhone 4S, iOS 5.1
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May 4, 2009
can anyone tell me how to:
back up my itunes to a dvd and import it back if i loose itunes infomation on my mac. (always thought there was an option to back up info but can not find it. itunes 8.0.2)
also how i have imported most of my music as MP3 format but I need to change some of it (mainly audiobooks) to WAV or AIFF if it can be done.
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Jul 5, 2009
I have a 1TB My Studio external HD and I have it partitioned, 600GB for Time Machine and 400GB for my iTunes (I keep 100% of my iTunes library on this partition). Is there a way to backup this entire hard drive with another hard drive that I have laying around? I want some redundancy and especially since I have thousands of dollars work of iTunes stuff all in one place and nowhere else. Also, I wouldn't care or want to have it backed up like Time Machine(constantly updating) but it would be nice if once a month I could just do one back up, that way if I ever had a problem and lost a hard drive I would only be out a months worth of stuff.
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Jul 8, 2010
I want to transfer my iTunes library to a new MacBook that I'm buying today. What's the best way to do it? I need to sell this computer before I get the new one so I won't be able to put a cable between them. If I just copy across the music folder in my iTunes media directory, will this be enough? I have lots of album booklets and iTunes LP stuff that I want across as well. The other option is of course the DVD backup system through iTunes.
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Feb 6, 2009
how do backup all your itunes media? do you just use one drive and not back up? im just wondering, because i have a fear that if i only back up all my itunes media on a external drive, that one day, it will crash when i need it, and ill be screwed. so what the best way to back it up? i was thinking of burning it all to dvds but that would take forever.
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Apr 30, 2009
I've never bought iTunes music/movies before so I never bothered to know this stuff. I only buy iPhone games, and as you know it's no problem to just re-download them after a erase-and-install or whatever. But with movies+music, you can't do this. I know they are riddled with DRM (the movies, anyway), so I'm wondering how I'd preserve them between reinstalls. I know I can burn a DVD or CD and do it that way. But to be environmentally friendly (and more hassle-free ) can I just, say, transfer the movies to a folder on my iDisk, then after the reinstall, transfer it back into iTunes? Will it retain all the information, play back fine, and everything despite the DRM?
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Is there a way to back up individual movies/tv series in iTunes? I've ripped a lot of my dvds to itunes to watch on my iphone. My macbook HD is really starting to get full. Can I just do a TM backup, and then just delete whole tv series? And then, can I individually restore them from the TM backup? If so, how? Does this make sense?
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Nov 9, 2010
Im new here can anyone tell me how to make a folder to put all my backing tracks for saxophone . Ive tried adding my folder from my desktop into itunes but all the tracks seem to go to separate folders I'm getting frustrated all i want is to have all my backing tracks in one folder. I have the 27in iMac 1T HD I also Have the latest itunes installed
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Sep 19, 2010
I'm having a problem with time machine repeatedly backing up my /~/Music/iTunes directory. Everytime I plug in my drive, I get a 192Gb backup which will loop continuously. I've confirmed that it's this directory using BackupLoupe and have reset time machine, repaired the disk with no errors, completely reformatted my time machine disk, and continue to have these issues. Console shows no real issue, backupd process simply requests a 192Gb backup and proceeds with it. While I cannot be sure, this appears to have started sometime after the 10.6.4 update.
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Dec 22, 2010
I have searched this, but I am not sure which answer is the best for this. I would like erase my hard drive and restore OSX. I then want to restore my iTunes library with as little headache as possible. I do not want to use Time Machine. I just want to make sure my iTunes will retain all of my music and still sync with my iPhone properly.
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Sep 9, 2010
if any of you have this problem when backing up iTunes. When it ejects a disc and tells you to insert an empty disc... my machine keeps spitting out the new disc. It will eventually take it and continue backing up. Sometimes I end up having to feed it the same disc as much as twenty times. Do any of you have this problem and has anyone found a fix?
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Feb 14, 2009
All of my music has been stored on an external HDD in a folder: itunes/itunesmusic/. I've gone into Edit, Preferences, Advanced and told it that my I Tunes Music Location is: f:/itunes/itunesmusic But when I open Itunes, I still don't see my songs. I don't want copies of my songs stored on my computer (which is what I think will happen if I "consolidate")
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Sep 9, 2014
So here's the deal: I have a 64Gb iphone with 1GB available, and a 256Gb macbook retina with 17Gb free space.
The iphone backups are taking up a lot of space on the macbook. I looked into moving the backup files to an external drive and using a soft link to link it all together, but that's a lot more complicated than is necessary, so I just pressed option when opening itunes and created a new library on the external drive with 1TB free space (as reported by Finder).
I can verify that the computer is using the external library as when I transfer purchases, that library on the external grows in size And doesn't have any of my old content. However, when I try to back up the phone (which is around 30GB) I get the error message that itunes cannot backup the phone because there is not enough space left on the computer, even though the external disk has a terabyte left. I know it's because the macintosh hd has only 17 Gb, is there any way to get round it?
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), Itunes upto date
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My Daughter's iPod requires iTunes in 10.1 or higher, but my PowerMac G4 won't allow me to upgrade (I currently have v 9.2.1). when I downloaded the installation thing it says I needed OS 10.5.3 and I'm running 10.4.11.
I have a dual 1.6Ghz power PC G4 processor.
For that matter, does anyone know if I can upgrade my OS to 10.5 or above and/or if it would be worthwhile to do so?
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Mac OS X (10.4.11), User is a dope
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Mar 6, 2009
I have a major dilemma I have a 2tb itunes library and I'm starting to worry about disk failures. Should I turn my G4 power mac into a server or just purchase a drobo.
I'm going to just load about 4tb into the G4 and have 2 2tb partitions one will be used for backup and one will be used to serve the media.
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Apr 10, 2012
on my Mac G5 the iphoto and itunes will not open
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Jun 6, 2012
What is the latest OS and version of iTunes I can run on my dual 2 Ghz PowerPC G5?
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G4 Dual 2.0, 1 gig RAM
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Feb 16, 2009
The other day the electricity to the house was turned off with Itunes running on my computer. Im running a G5 Mac OSX version 10.4.11 if that helps. When i turned the computer back on it read itunes library corrupt and the only option it gave was to press 'OK'.
Out of 8000 or so songs, 3000 remain in the library. There are some songs on the hard drive under 'Music' which is some of the missing songs but not sure if its all of them
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I have a non Intel Power PC, upgraded to Leopard 10.5.8 with the latest iTunes even went as far as buying a new hard drive in hopes of stopping iTunes from constantly "hanging" and displaying the multi colored ball of doom every time I try to play a tune or rename a selection. Even tho' I have a new drive and pointed iTunes to it as the new location for iTunes and have been manually installing tunes I still get the same "hang" or freeze/spinning ball. Has anybody experienced conflicts with Power PC G5 dual 2.0, iTunes and Firewire busses. I have wasted weeks trying to figure this out.
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I've just upgraded from a Power Mac (V10.5.8) to a Mac Book Pro. I'd like to transfer all the music I have in iTunes (V10.6.1) and don't want to have to buy Leopard just for this one-off. I've used the thunderbolt to copy everything else ok.
I'll probably push all my content to iCloud to share on my great new iPhone as well, but 1 brideg at at a time!!
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PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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I have updated quciktime as instructed and I can no longer access or even open my itunes?
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PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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Jun 7, 2012
1- I have a Mac mini server running in the basement on a flat screen TV, I use this as my home enertainment center. There are Apple TVs on the rest of the TV's in the house and I have home sharing on
2- thunder storms have caused a power outage
3- The library has been cleaned. The items i still had for down load are still down loading, but all my movies, songs, apps, ect are not listed.
4- I was always going to get around to backing it up, and didn't. Iknow, I know
I think all the items are still there, I tunes just can't find them. One of the two hard drives was approaching full and i was looking at relocating the itunes files to the second hard drive, BUT being a novice with computers I was stumbling and never got it done. I had looked into it and remember scrolling through the screens that had been listed in forums. How do i search for Itunes files? the program runs, but the data is not there?How do i teach Itunes to look where i dropped the files when and if i find them?
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.8), mac mini server
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Jul 2, 2012
How to download I tunes for model power book G4 (10.4.11)
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PowerBook, Mac OS X (10.4.11)
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Mar 26, 2012
ive just upgraded my powerbook from 10.4.11 to 10.5.8 at my local apple store forgot to ask how to sync my iphone 4 to my mac,as it wont pick it up on itunes or charge via the usb cable? ive just upgraded to 5.1 on my iphone,do i need a newer version of itunes?
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PowerBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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Mar 10, 2012
I have a power mac G5 and after I updated to the highest software update available, I find that iTunes and Safari reset their data everytime I close them. I have checked all settings and tried resetting to regular software and trying again.
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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Nov 11, 2009
I'm in the process of moving my iTunes folder to an external hard drive due to my computers hard drive being full. Now the external hard drive I'm using needs to be plugged in to a power source, now if I transfer all my music/movies to the external drive and also have my iTunes automatically download everything to the drive will I be able to copy my movie files back into my computers hard drive when I wan to be able to watch them on plane trips or would I be better off using a external hard drive that doesn't need a power source so I can just take it with me?
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